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		tomschlick on Jan 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPho... And that's a novel idea when they are on the campaign trail... until they start getting daily national security briefings and learn about the attempted attacks supposedly foiled by good SIGINT. No one wants to be the president who turns that firehose off and "causes the next 9/11". I believe that is what happened with Obama.

zdragnar on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

It's more naive than novel, because it assumes that everyone who came before were acting in bad faith.

merpnderp on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

Given the bumbling numbskulls who still manage to set off bombs, are we really that sure they're stopping anyone?

diminoten on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, we're pretty sure.

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